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Monday, December 28, 2020 | Opinion
By MARY KAY McBRAYER
We horror lovers have been tired of the rape-revenge fantasy trope for a long time, and most rape-revenge fantasy horror films fail because they try to fight violence with violence, which is not really the appropriate reaction. In many cases, that’s not how sexual assault manifests – or at least, that’s not the most horrific part of it. Because the effects of rape are in large part psychological, it makes sense that the punishment should be in kind. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020, dir. Emerald Fennell) is a rape-revenge story that delivers on every front in a subgenre that could so easily have gone awry again. The notable distinction here is that when Cassie (Carey Mulligan) seeks revenge, she first offers redemption – a chance to do the right thing before the person at fault gets their comeuppance – which makes this movie less about revenge and more about the substitution of vigilante justice for when our current